【推荐1】This morning, as I was getting close to the supermarket, I saw a small crowd gathering around an elderly woman with blood under her face. I stopped and asked if I could ___. I told her I was certified (持有证件的) in first aid. Then I ___ someone for a first aid kit (工具箱). But she didn’t want ___, saying she was fine. But she wasn’t fine. I asked her to ___ with me and we ___ about her routine of getting groceries. People brought out ice packs, water and paper towels from the ___ nearby. I put on the gloves from the first aid kit, and cleaned her up a bit, but ___ I just talked to her and held her hand.

Two ___ happened to be passing by and ___ to help check her out a bit. Finally, after ten minutes the ____ arrived and I talked to the emergency medical team and they ____.

I was certified in first aid years ago, and I got re-certified a month ago, but I never ____ it once. However, I realized being certified isn’t ____ about providing aid. I didn’t stop the bleeding. I didn’t ____ to examine her. Mostly it was about providing comfort for people in a difficult ____. The certification gave me the ____ to do that: to kneel on the sidewalk holding the elderly woman’s hand, and to help make those ____ few minutes just a little bit better.

If you’re not certified in first aid, I can’t ____ it strongly enough. It just takes four hours of your time at your ____ Red Cross. With what you’ll ____, maybe you’ll be able to help someone like the elderly woman one day.

【推荐2】Sea turtles are considered a national treasure in Sri Lanka. However, in recent years, the sea turtles have faced great _________.

Growing up on the beach, Chamara Indika, 35, was _________ about it. In the beginning, he _________himself to the protection of sea turtles as a volunteer. He gave his spare time to raise _________ of caring for sea turtles and caried out sea turtle protection and rescue missions.

Later, he decided that this was not a long-term _________ . “One person’s abilities are very _________ and I wanted to make real changes,” said Indika._________, Jack Xiao, the founder of Chinese YIK International Volunteers (YIKIV), reached out to Indika and offered his help to protect sea turtles. With his assistance, Indika set up the Nil Manel Foundation in Sri Lanka.

The organization _________ professional training and guidance for the volunteers, spreads knowledge of turtle and carries out conservation activities. Volunteers can then work to spread their new knowledge to more people.

At first, the volunteers’ main job was to rescue and care for _________ turtles locally. Then they found people and animals eat turtle eggs on the beach. So volunteers started __________ eggs to a protection center with artificial cultivation. It __________ higher survival rates.

Thanks to their efforts, the survival rate of newborn turtles has reached new highs, and conservation awareness has also increased. Many volunteers now __________ to use straws and plastic bags which cause many turtles to die accidentally.

“It made me feel that all my work had __________. But it was not enough to rely on myself and the current volunteers. It would be important to __________ this knowledge down to future generations,” said Indika. With persistence and hard work, Indika firmly believes they will make a(n)__________ to the sea turtles.

【推荐1】Molai grew up in a tiny village in India. The village lay near some wetlands which became his second _______. He learned the value and beauty of _______ there from a very young age.

When he was 16, Molai began to notice something _______ happening around his home. A flood had hit the area earlier that year and the _______ it caused had driven away a number of birds. _______, the number of snakes had declined as well. He _______ that it was because there weren’t enough trees to protect them from the _______. The solution, of course, was to plant trees so the animals could seek _______ during the daytime. He turned to the _______ department for help but was told that nothing would grow there. However, Molai went looking on his own and ________ a nearby island where he began to plant trees.

________ young plants in the dry season was ________ for a lone boy. Molai built at the ________ of each sapling (幼树) a bamboo platform, where he placed pots with small holes to ________ rainwater. The water would then drip (滴落) on the plants below.

Molai ________ to plant trees for the next 37 years. His efforts have resulted in 1,360 acres of naturally-grown land that has become home to many plants and animals.

【推荐2】The Human Development Report, published annually since 1990, seeks to ____ “human development” around the world and calculates a “Human Development Index” (HDI 人类发展指数) for 169 countries. The HDI is ____ on average income, life expectancy, and level of education. ____, rich countries tend to have higher HDIs than poor countries, but there are interesting ____ in human development among countries with similar levels of economic development, because some have better health and education systems than others.

Almost every country in the world has a higher HDI than in 1990, despite the fact that since the 2008 financial crisis the total number of people living in extreme ____ has increased. The report concludes that most people are healthier, live longer, are more ____, — and that even in countries with severe economic problems, people’s health and education have generally ____. Although sub-Saharan African countries are at the bottom of the pile ____ human development, some of them have made significant progress since 1990. The report is ____, however, of the fact that economic inequality has increased significantly in the last twenty years, both within and between countries.

The greatest threat to HDI in the future, according to the report, is climate change. The way to increase average income in a country is through economic growth, which means increased production and ____. However, if this ____ to greater emissions of greenhouse gases, as has always been the case in the past, global warming will probably go faster, causing severe environmental problems in some parts of the world that will ____ the livelihoods of huge numbers of people. The progress of the last twenty years, ____, might not be sustainable .

The only solution, according to the report, is to break the ____ between economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions — which, ____ to say, is easier said than done.

【推荐3】Afroz Shah, a lawyer in Mumbai, hasn’t had a weekend off in four years. But he hasn’t spent this time preparing for _________.

His mission? Saving the world’s oceans from _________ pollution.

It’s a calling he found in 2015 after moving to a community in Mumbai called Versova Beach. He had played there as a child and was_________to see how much it had _________. The sand was no longer _________ because it was covered by a layer of garbage more than five feet thick — most of it plastic waste.

“The whole beach was like a_________of plastic,” he said. “It hurt me. The _________ mess.” What Shah had seen is part of a global environmental crisis. More than 8 million tons of plastic _________in the world’s oceans each year. It’s predicted that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. “Plastic in the ocean is a _________. And the sea species have no choice at all, ” Shah said. “We are ______________ their habitats.”

In October 2015, Shah began ________________ up plastic waste from the beach every Sunday morning. At first, it was just him and a neighbor, and then he began calling on others to join in. Word ________________ and with the help from social media, more volunteers got ________________.

For Shah, the work has always been a ________________ journey, but it has earned global attention. After he was ________________ as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2016, Shah now devotes nearly all of his free time to this ________________.

He’s now spent 209 weekends on this mission, ________________ more than 200,000 volunteers, some of whom are young students, to join him in what’s been called the world’s biggest beach cleanup. By October 2018, Versova Beach was ________________ clean and Shah’s cleanups expanded to another beach as well as a stretch of the Mithi River and other regions of India.

“This world talks too much. I think we must talk ________________ and do action more, ” he said when interviewed by CNN in October 2019.“We are a smart species. Well adapt. We’ll learn. And with these youngsters rising up, I see ________________.”

【推荐2】Computers have done us a lot since they turned up. In the future they will play a more important part in many ____, such as education, transport, personal lives, scientific research and so on. Nowadays computers are being used in _____ and industry and can help the farmers to ____ the conditions of the plants.

More and more computers will come into our daily life with the ____ of science and technology. If you want to change money or pay your electricity bills, you won’t have to go to the ____. A computer and a telephone will help you. It can also help you to do the housework and it can even _____ human voices and carry out the instructions. It is ____ that the majority of the labor force will work at home. People will be able to use the videophone for conferences. This can help us to save a lot of energy and _____. It is said that trains in Japan will have no _____, because they’ll be well _____ by computers, which can also tell the best _____ between trains.

Computers programs for ____ whole texts are already well developed. You can _____ the name of a certain subject and a ____ list of book titles will ____ on your screen. You may choose whichever you want.

【推荐3】There are too many fat people in America, so many Americans are fighting against overweight. But the _______thing is that the French, who consume rich food, _______to stay thin. Now a _______by Cornell University suggests _______life style and decisions about _______may affect weight. Researchers concluded that the French tend to stop eating when they feel _______. However, Americans tend to stop when their _______are empty or their favorite TV show is over.

According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, a _______expert, the French see eating _______an important part of their life style. They enjoy food and therefore spend a ________time at the table, while Americans see eating as ________to be squeezed between the other daily activities. Mercola believes Americans ________the ability to sense when they are actually full. So they keep eating long after the French would have ________. In addition, he points out that Americans drive to huge supermarkets to buy canned and ________foods for the week. The French, ________tend to shop daily, walking to small shops and farmers’ markets where they have a ________of fresh fruits, vegetables, and eggs as well as high-quality meats for each meal.

After a visit to the United States, Mireille Guiliano, author of French Women Don’t Get fat, decided to ________about the importance of knowing when to stop rather than suggesting how to avoid ________. Today she continues to stay slim and rarely goes to the gym.

In spite of all these differences, evidence shows that recent life style ________may be affecting French eating habits. Today the rate of obesity(肥胖)—or extreme overweight—among adults is only 6%. However, as American fast food gains ________and the young reject older traditions, the obesity rate among French children has reached 17%—and is growing.